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The Hidden Cost of Firearm Violence on Pregnant Women and Their Infants
Currie, Janet M.; Dursun, Bahadir; Hatch, Michael; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Firearm violence is a pervasive public health crisis in the United States, with significant numbers of homicides involving firearms, including indiscriminate shootings in public spaces. This paper investigates the largely unexplored consequences of stress induced by these attacks on newborn...
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Children and the US Social Safety Net : Balancing Disincentives for Adults and Benefits for Children
Aizer, Anna; Hoynes, Hilary W.; Lleras-Muney, Adriana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Economic research on the safety net has evolved significantly over time, moving away from a near exclusive focus on the negative incentive effects of means-tested assistance on employment, earnings, marriage and fertility to include examination of the potential positive benefits of such programs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938723
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An Equilibrium Analysis of the Effects of Neighborhood-based Interventions on Children
Chyn, Eric; Daruich, Diego - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
To study the effects of neighborhood and place-based interventions, this paper incorporates neighborhood effects into a general equilibrium (GE) heterogeneous-agent overlapping-generations model with endogenous location choice and child skill development. Importantly, housing costs as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191022
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U.S. Safety Net Programs and Early Life Skills Formation : Results from a Prospective Longitudinal Cohort Study
Bolbocean, Corneliu - 2018
A large body of literature suggests that the first years of life are critical for long-term economic, health and social outcomes. However, the effect of public programs on early life skills formation is largely unknown due to data limitations. In this paper we use novel data from a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012452889
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Push and Pull : Disability Insurance, Regional Labor Markets, and Benefit Generosity in Canada and the United States
Milligan, Kevin - 2017
Disability insurance take-up has expanded substantially in the past twenty years in the United States while shrinking in Canada. We empirically assess these trends by measuring the strength of the 'push' from weak labor markets versus the 'pull' of more generous benefits. Using an instrumental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455276
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The Effects of Income on the Economic Wellbeing of Families with Low Incomes : Evidence from the 2021 Expanded Child Tax Credit
Pilkauskas, Natasha; Michelmore, Katherine; Kovski, Nicole - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We examine the effects of an unconditional cash transfer on the economic wellbeing (material hardship, ability to meet … Child Tax Credit (CTC), which provided monthly, unconditional cash payments to families with children from July to December …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013435095
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Mothers as Insurance : Family Spillovers in WIC
Bitler, Marianne; Currie, Janet M.; Hoynes, Hilary W.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is a widely used program. Previous research shows that WIC improves birth outcomes, but evidence about impacts on children and families is limited. We use a regression discontinuity leveraging an age five when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334331
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The (Lack of) Anticipatory Effects of the Social Safety Net on Human Capital Investment
Deshpande, Manasi; Dizon-Ross, Rebecca - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
How does the expectation that a child will receive government benefits in adulthood affect parental investments in the child's human capital? Most parents whose children receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits overestimate the likelihood that their child will receive SSI benefits in...
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The Long-Term Effects of Income for At-Risk Infants : Evidence from Supplemental Security Income
Hawkins, Amelia A.; Hollrah, Christopher A.; Miller, Sarah - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper examines whether a generous cash intervention early in life can "undo" some of the long-term disadvantage … that families of infants born just below this cutoff experience a large increase in cash benefits totaling about 27% of … family income in the first three years of the infant's life. These cash benefits persist at lower amounts through age 10 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372503
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Investing in Infants : The Lasting Effects of Cash Transfers to New Families
Barr, Andrew C.; Eggleston, Jonathan; Smith, Alexander A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We provide new evidence that cash transfers following the birth of a first child can have large and long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362027